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Too Simple

A personal cataloguing of the moments where shortcomings are encountered in the ecosystem.

Keyboard

Poor autocorrect experience chock full of typos. Pretty much can't trust a message I type, I need to edit messages constantly especially text that does not fit in a single screen. https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/9mj1si/why_is_autocorrect_so_terrible_are_there_any_ways

Messages App

Messages lumping all communication with a contact, rather than a contact and the communication channel (mobile, email, etc)

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Tax Calculating Resources

• https://github.com/ustaxes/UsTaxes
• http://opentaxsolver.sourceforge.net/
• https://sites.google.com/view/incometaxspreadsheet
• https://www.freefilefillableforms.com
• https://taxsim.app/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31925871
• https://directfile.irs.gov/
• https://www.freetaxusa.com/

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General

• https://github.com/iDoka/awesome-canbus
• Explained! CAN BUS Diagnosis – How to Troubleshoot Faults. -- great visuals and high level overview of the physical CAN bus
• CAN Bus Communication Explained (Part 1) -- very rich motivating context to network topology with respect to bus separation

CAN Protocol

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN_bus
• https://www.typhoon-hil.com/documentation/typhoon-hil-software-manual/References/can_bus_protocol.html

DBC File

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https://humbleblogger.blogspot.com/2009/04/after-17-years-is-it-too-late-to-fix-c.html interesting historical piece on the subject. Touts the rich Java world in embracing plugins as well as some ObjectiveC industry hits.

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Steps for Producing a Passport Photo in Photoshop

Configure Selection Tool

1. Select rectangular markee tool
2. With the Style option configure Fixed Aspect Ratio from the pulldown menu: set both width and height to 1. this will constrain the selection tool to produce a perfect square however you drag out your selection to whatever size

Crop the Image

Center the square markee selection over your portrait image following the US Passport guidelines for producing the necessary margins from your head and shoulders. Once the the selection is centered and with desirable

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Highlight.js Notes

Developer Notes for language contributions

• https://github.com/highlightjs/highlight.js/blob/master/docs/language-contribution.rst

have your grammar as a 3rd party language module

Create a language grammar definition file, a file which defines a function accepting a reference to the library and returning a language object.

• https://github.com/highlightjs/highlight.js/blob/master/extra/3RD_PARTY_QUICK_START.md

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Receipt Processing

Neat

They used to sell an all in one scanner product, looks like they focus more on software and cloud processing solutions: https://www.neat.com/track-receipts/

Software is able to drive certain scanners that support this API https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWAIN

The shifted their focus from the individual to small business as the market was likely larger in that segment.

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#!/bin/bash
N_RUNS=30

function drive_test {
    test_meta=$1
    test_target=$2
    n_failures=0

    echo "********************************************************************************************************************************************"
    echo "$test_meta EXECUTION"

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https://github.com/bazelbuild/starlark/

which links to

https://github.com/bazelbuild/starlark/blob/master/spec.md

This document was derived from the [description of the Go implementation](description of the Go implementation) of Starlark.

Which explains why all the buildifier and buildozer stuff is expressed in Go. It was a fallacy to think that the starlark interperter would be in python like the language representation itself.

Searching for starlark imports in the buildtools go files lands upon this very promising beauty...

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"""
Script to automate the tagging of the File Details from Windows Explorer given a folder path,
the tags to enter into the images, and the number of images to add the tags to.
"""

# BASE PYTHON
import argparse
import os
import sys